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HEEL BURNISHING MAUHINE. No. 270,150. Patented Jan.2,1883

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J. E. TARBOX.

HEEL BURNISHING MACHINE.

No. 270,150. Patented Jan.2,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES TARBOX, on LYNN, MAssAoHusnrrs, ssreuoa or ONE-HALF TO SAMUEL M. PORTER, or SAME PLACE.

HEEL-BURNISHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,150, dated January 1863.

Application filed September 11, 1882. (N0 ode -l in opposite directions, one being moved for-- ward while the other is being drawn backward.

Figure 1 represents in plan view a burnish- V ing-machine embodying this invention; Fig. 2, a detail showing one of theside pieces of one of the guidesin which the cross-heads slide; Fig. 3, a front View of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a detail of the devices for raising and loweringthejack. The frame-work A, of proper shape to hold the working parts, has suitable uprights provided with boxes for the mainshaftB, which,

driven 'by a belt on a suitable pulley, O, has, as herein shown, disks D D at its opposite ends; butinstead ofdisksit might have cranks. These disks have crank-pins a a, connected 0 respectively by links I; b with the cross-heads c c, madeT-shaped, as shown in Fig. 3, and fitted to slide betweenthe grooved side pieces, 0, which form guides for the said cross-heads. The guides are erected upon the upper end of 5 partsff', and each side piece, 0, is slotted, as

shown at (3*, Fig. 2, to receive the arms gg, extended through the cross-heads 0 and '0, respectively, at right angles. The inner ends of these arms 9 g are connected by pins or screws c 2 with the endmost block 3 of a series of blocks united by links it (see Fig. 1) to form a chain-like burnishing-belt, E. Each arm gg,

at its under side, has a pin or stud, 4, against which acts a spring, m, to force the arms toward the shoe-heel in a yielding manner, suitable shoulders at the under sides of the said arms preventing them from being moved too far inward by the said springs. As the crossheads are reciprocated in right lines in opposite directions, the said arms pull alternately upon the said belt E, and cause it to rub about the curved surface of the heel of the boot or shoe, the said chain adapting itself to the curve of the heel, and, by the edges and faces of its blocks 3, burnishing the said heel. 5

The shoe is mounted upon a last, Gr, ofusual shape, the foot. 8 of which is provided with a pin or pivot entering a socket in a block, a, secured to the upper end of a sliding bar, 01!, engaged by a treadle, 12 by which it is raised and lowered to place and hold the shoe and last in correct position for the action of the belt E against the heel of the boot orshoe. The block a is hinged'upon the bar a at '9, to enable the shoes to be easily removed from the 6 last by tipping the said block laterally, when a shoe or boot may be readily removed from or applied to the last.

Rising and falling with the block a is a yoke,

0, which, at its upper end, receives and guides the spindle 10, provided at its lower end with the heel-presser or hold-down 10, shaped to correspond substantially with the top-lift of the heel. This spindle is surrounded by a spiral spriug,'p, which acts to depress the. spindle, a hand-lever, 12', having its fulcrum on a standard, 12, serving to lift the spindle when it is desired to lift the heel-presser.

The carriage m by which the last, yoke, spindle, and heel-presser are mounted, consti- 8o tutes a jack, which may be slid or adjusted horizontally, as mayjbe desired, to place the heel of the boot or shoe well back into the curved or concaved face of the chain E. In this instance the carriage has 'backwardly- 83 projecting arms r 1", which are acted upon by a clamping-plate, r joined by thumb-screws r with a block or washer (not shown) below the main partofthe frame, the said clamp holding' the carriage in adjusted position.

I do not broadly claim aburnishing-belt or a burnishing-chain moved continuously in one direction.

I claim--- 1.The burnishing chain or belt, the arms 5 with which it is connected, the cross-heads to carry the said arms, and the guides to receive the cross-heads, combined with the links and cranks to move the cross-heads, all constructed substantially as described. 10o

2. The guides for the cross-heads, the crossheads, their arms 9 g, springsto hold them pressed forward, and the belt or chain E, combined with the links and cranks to reciprocate 5' the cross-heads in opposite directions at the same time, substantially as described.

3. The adjustable or movable jack to hold the shoe, the chain E to burnish the heel of the shoe, and the arms and cross-heads, com- 1o bined with the guides for the cross-heads, and

the links and cranks to move the cross-heads, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

JAMES E. TARBOX.

Witnesses:

J 0s. P. LIVERMORE, B. J. NoYEs. 

